A group of faith leaders, hailing from New York to Florida, took a stand in Birmingham Wednesday afternoon for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Dr. Alan Keyes, a conservative political pundit, opened the news conference with a prayer.

More than an hour later, Roy Moore came to the microphone:

Many of you have recognized that this is an effort by Mitch McConnell and his cronies to steal the election from the people of Alabama, and they will not stand for it. They overcame $30 million and voted me in the primary...and now they're trying a different tactic.

Moore said it was time to get back to the issues of the campaign, and the event organizer Janet Porter attempted to steer the conversation with media to campaign issue questions.

Moore and his wife walked out after the media asked questions about the allegations made against Moore.

Porter ended the event by telling members of the media they had probably received "more church this afternoon than [they had] in the last ten years."